Makes you wonder how much of your behaviour and fears are driven by headlines instead of reality. Sure things go up and down with the economy, but they also wen

Makes you wonder how much of your behaviour and fears are driven by headlines instead of reality. Sure things go up and down with the economy, but they also went very up for a lot of people (ie: demographic of people on hackernews) during COVID. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/02/23/savings-bank-accounts-covid/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/02/23/savings-b... Flights are expensive because demand is through the roof while labor is not available to fulfill the demand. Same for eating out. Not negating that inflation is up within the last year, but did you realize how good were the last few years (even before COVID) but didn't quite realize as there was no headlines telling you that good news?